[Commlist] New book: Effective Journalism: How the Information Ecosystem Works and What Journalists Should Do About It

Intellect is pleased to share that /Effective Journalism: How the 
Information Ecosystem Works and What Journalists Should Do About It 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/effective-journalism>/, by Jessica 
Roberts, is out in hardback.

Jessica Roberts explains how the cognitive and emotional factors 
affecting human behaviour converge with the structural factors in 
current communication technologies to create an unhealthy information 
ecosystem, one in which journalists are at a disadvantage.

The central argument of the book is that journalists and audiences can 
no longer afford to pretend that all information is competing on an even 
playing field, and that it is enough for journalists to simply publish 
“the facts.” /Effective Journalism/ explains the reality, rather than 
the ideal, of how people seek and process information, and what 
journalists and their audiences can do to try to create an informed 
public in the face of that reality.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*Acknowledgements
Introduction*

*PART I: STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES IN OUR INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM*
*1.* Information Proliferation
*2.* The Attention Economy
*3. *Customization and Filters and Bots
*4.* The Competitive Advantage of Junk News

*PART II: COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE BARRIERS TO PROCESSING INFORMATION
5. *The Dual-Process Model
*6. *Motivated Reasoning and Bias
*7. *Emotion and Information

*PART III: THE SOLUTIONS
8. *New Movements in Journalism
*9. *Strategies to Effectively Debunk False Information
*10.* Empathy Cultivation and Building Community
*11.* Effective Journalism Practices
*12.* Solutions for Tech Companies, Government, and the Public

*Conclusion
Index*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/effective-journalism
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/effective-journalism>


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